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J. A. CAMPBELL 8v G. P. HARRISON.

BARREL HEAD.

Patented Deo. 17, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. CAMPBELL AND GEORGE P. HARRISON, OF NEV ORLEANS, LOUISI- ANA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO PIERE MICHEL, .I R., OF SAME PLACE.

BARREL-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,230, d'ated December 17, 1889. Application filed .Tune 10, 1889. Serial No. 318,802.Y (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES ALEXANDER CAMPBELL and GEORGE PETTIGREW HARRI- SON, citizens of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Heads; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,

IO such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to improvements in devices for securingl barrel-heads in position.

The invention is designed an improvement upon the devices shown and described in the Letters Patent granted to James A. Campbell, March 12, 1889, No. 399,494, and the novelty will be fully understood from the following description and claim when taken in connection with th e annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a barrel-head,

showing our improved fastening device in position. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the short wedge. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the long Wedge. Fig. et is a plan view of the short wedge. Fig. 5 is a similaiview of the long` Wedge. Fig. 6 is an inverted plan view of the long wedge. Fig. 7 a plan view of the locking-plate. Fig. S is a plan view of a barrel-head with our improvements applied, the construction being somewhat modified. Fig. 9 is a plan view of the small wedge used in the modification. Figs. 10 and 11 are edge views of the same. Figs. 12 and 13 are views of the long wedge used in the modied construction, and Fig. 14: isa cross-sectional View of the barrel-head with one of the `wedges in position.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A and B indicate two similar semicircular sections of a barrel-head,which are adapted when placed in position in a barrel to form a wedge- I space between their adjacent edges, the said edges being beveled, as shown in Fig. 1l.

C indicates a wedge, which is of a construction substantially as shown, having one or both of its side edges ,tapering and its reduced 5o end beveled at a to enter the chine-groove of a barrel. Its longitudinal edges are also beveled, as shown in Fig. 14, so as to engage and closely iit the corresponding bevelingI on the edges of the head-sections. This wedge C, which we shall denominate the short wedge, 5 5 is provided at its opposite or inner end and on its upper side with a bevel b, and slightly in rear of this bevel is a shoulder c, to furnish an abutment or means whereby the wedge may be driven into position by a hammer or 6o the like.

D indicates a long wedge. This long wedge is of a construction similar to the short wedge O, having its reduced or outer end beveled to enter the chine-groove and its inner end beveled to overlap the bevel on the adjacent end of the wedge C. The wedge D has its longitudinal edges also beveled, as shown at d, whereby it may snugly engage the bevel of the head-sections when driven to place. 7o

E indicates a locking-plate, which may be made of metal or other suitable material. This plate is provided near opposite ends with elongated slots F, extending lengthwise of the plate and terminating at one end in an eye or enlargement G.

In operation the sections of the head A and B are first placed in position. The wedge O is then driven in the'wedge-space between the adjacent edges of the head-sections, after 8o which the other wedge is driven in place, with its adjacent end overlapping that of the wedge O. The plate E is then placed over the joint until the eye portions of the slots F pass over the nails or headed lugs H in the head-sections, as shown, when the said plate is slid horizontally until the nails are brought in the reduced portions of the slots, thereby securely fastening the head in position.

In the modification referred to we have 9o shown the wedge C of greater length than the wedge D and one of the slots in the locking-plate as having an angular offset. By having this angular offset it will be seen that.

-the locking-plate must first be moved later- 9 5 Claim S- loo The combination, with two sections of a barrel-head having their adjacent edges beveled and adapted to form a Wedge-space between them, of two fastening-Wedges having 5 their longitudinal edges beveled to meet the beveled edges of said sections, their outer reduced ends beveled to enter the chine-groove of a barrel, and their inner ends also beveled and adapted to overlap each other, the heed- Io sections having headed lugs or nails, and the locking-plate adapted to cover the overlap` ping ends of the Wedges and provided with slots to receive the nails in the head-sections, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof We afix our signa- I5 tures in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES A. CAMPBELL. GEORGE P. HARRISON. lVitnesses: l

JOHN A. ADAMS, PERCY D. PARKS. 

